mccain campaign staffers for not allowing her to speak for easily and speaking about her interview with katie couric and levy johnston. >> this is sarah palin's story that she -- this is her account of it so i think it's very typical to see many different sides of the story. >> palin did not, however, reveal her political plans for 2012 nor is he talking about that. and joining us now the president of the terrance group, a national republican polling firm and republican strategist who offers some counsel for the campaign. thank you for oining us this morning. >> glad to be here. >> and let's talk about going rogue. and this came from staffers, what they called her for doing her own thing. what significance does the title have now that she embraces that? >> she brought a lot to the table. i worked at the convention and with her and in terms of the speech she gave. she connected with a large number of voters out there in a very big way. in fact, one of the things we saw in the polling coming out of the convention, it's the only time that -- that ten day period was the only time the mccain campa